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by Tloewald 10y ago
Yeah I found this assertion pretty troubling too. The "black" on most displays is already "soft" since even black pixels are leaking light. I've never read a page in a book and thought "you know, this ink is to
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by Tloewald 10y ago
You don't understand the difference between picking a lock and using a key? You do realize that the world isn't neatly defined - objects in the world don't have platonic labels assigned to them, a key vs lock picks is just as
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by Tloewald 10y ago
> If what you say about "requests" and "responses" is both true and dispositive of the issue of authorization, then you're saying that virtually every SQL injection vulnerability on the Internet is also an "
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by Tloewald 10y ago
A proof is only, at bottom, a convincing argument. Mathmematicians are harder to convince than most people, but they can still miss things.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Perhaps the solution is for StackOverflow to provide a "here's the official docs" bot that looks for questions that are answered by official docs and links to them (and perhaps provide a system for maintainers to give it hint
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by Tloewald 10y ago
If the basis of your model is ramping up to major production levels at a loss to sell things people won't need once you're ramped up, I think you have a problem.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Solar powered cars are only working well in Urban areas, and they don't make economic sense, they're simply a form of guilt-free conspicuous consumption. There will definitely be people who need their own vehicles, but typical fam
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Except you need to worry about maintenance, insurance, etc. and you may not be able to use the car when you need it. Why bother?
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I think the fundamental error here is assuming the existing car ownership model. I think the future is autonomous taxis (or Ubers). This actually reduces congestion, eliminates the need for parking, and plays to the strengths of electric ve
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by Tloewald 10y ago
It's hardly "bullshit" that the reference to Trump's speech doesn't go down a rabbit hole teasing out the question "did he say ALL Mexicans are rapists, ALL Mexicans coming to the US are rapists, or only MANY o
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I lost enthusiasm for hyperterm. Commando was awesome.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
This makes me want to re-implemented "commando" from AUX/MPW (I've never understood why this idea didn't take off). If you don't know, when you typed an ellipsis after a command in AUX or MPW a dialog box would
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I believe Visual Studio does this by simply rewinding to the function entry point which addresses most of the concerns you've raised. A debugger is just an aid to reasoning about your code, not a substitute for it. You might make the
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by Tloewald 10y ago
There's a huge difference in taste between heavily wooded wines (e.g. Many reds and most Chardonnays) and wines made in stainless steel containers (e.g. most Sauvignon blancs) and it would be easy for anyone to tell them apart. But the
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by Tloewald 10y ago
That's much clearer, thanks! Folks who use Red could be referred to as communists ;-) If it takes off, you'll be Big Red.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Code never runs in a vacuum, so arguing about the size of the elephants on the way down is pointless, which is my point. What I do see is that the JavaScript does all of this much more cleanly and intelligibly, and has an honest line count.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
If we're really going to be fair, the JavaScript is a much more readable 30 loc than your nigh incomprehensible block of "17" loc which looks like something out of the obfuscated C contest. I expect you rely on the OS for som
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I take issue with her final paragraphs where she accuses "the left" of wanting draconian punishments for rape - this is a straw man. What I think most of us want is for a rapist to be treated equally whether a white Stanford athle
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I'm in favor of automatic updates for users if it's competently executed , explicit, and stoppable. So it's not the principle, it's the execution.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
There are plenty of suitable comparisons from which one can make an educated guess. In general, Macs do better than comparable Windows machines in browsing endurance tests, and Safari clobbers every other browser it has been tested in for b
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by Tloewald 10y ago
A vote that causes an instant 5-8% downgrade in the market's evaluation of pretty much an entire country is something that affects people's daily lives, unfortunately. (I guess it's similar in scope to electing George W. Bu
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Netflix is a rather specific example — don't they use Silverlight (as in "the only site anyone in the world cares about that uses Silverlight"?) It's like Apple stressing how well their browser works on -- oh wait, Apple
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Macsurfer.com — a simpler and more useful site — has been around since 1995 as well. If I've ever read anything on MacNN it's been because it was linked from Macsurfer
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The article was a profile of PARC in Scientific American, but I cannot tell you the specific issue. .
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I think he was actually picking things it's hard for anyone to disagree with, but if you do disagree with them you probably aren't on the "left". I think a right wing argument would not be against these things, but that
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by Tloewald 10y ago
It's part of the EU (yeah that surprised me too). Also, the guns are tied to military service ('well-regulated militia')
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by Tloewald 10y ago
It's a joke — most British SF novels (and UK editions of US SF novels) seemed to get published with covers featuring some kind of giant spaceship whether there was one in the story or not. Chris Foss is, per another reply, the most wel
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Very cute, although the ships look samish (would probably be interesting to start with different base templates etc. Still, it's only a few steps away from "random British 1970s SF book cover".
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Species is not a well-defined term in the sense a mathematician understands well-defined. E.g. the usual "ability to breed and create fertile offspring" excludes all organisms that do not reproduce sexually, and does not account f
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Right -- it seemed fine until "The Offer" showed up. You know who takes offers like that? The people who can find new jobs really easily. It's a recipe for losing good people.

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